Articles

  • Dawn, William C. “A Benchmark for Neutron Kinetics Methods in Hexagonal Geometry.” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2024.2396173

  • Dawn, William C., “Initial Validation of SIMULATE5-K and the CMS5 Reactor Modeling Suite with the SPERT-III Experiments” Proceedings of PHYSOR 2024, 2024. San Fransisco, CA. DOI: 10.13182/PHYSOR24-43302

  • Dawn, William C., Gerardo Grandi, and Tamer Bahadir. “Development and Benchmarking of SIMULATE5-K-VVER.” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023. Accepted for Publication.

  • Dawn, William C. and Tamer Bahadir. “Development and Benchmarking of Transient Nodal Code SIMULATE5-K Neutron Kinetics Solver for VVERs and Hexagonal Geometries.” Proceedings of M&C 2023, 2023. Niagara Falls, Ontario. Text.

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Solving the Neutron Transport Equation for Microreactor Modeling Using Unstructured Meshes and Exascale Computing Architectures.” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2023.2189510

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “A Multiphysics Simulation Suite for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Annals of Nuclear Energy (159), 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108213

  • Kiefer, Timothy M., William C. Dawn, Khaldoon Al-Dawood, and Scott Palmtag. “Control Rod Modeling in Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of PHYSOR 2022, 2022. Pittsburgh, PA. DOI: 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37649

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Simplified Thermal Expansion Modeling for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33702

  • Al-Dawood, Khaldoon A., William C. Dawn, and Scott Palmtag. “Multiphysics Simulation of Uranium-Nitride Fueled Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33708

  • Palmtag, Scott, William C. Dawn, and Chase Lawing. “Fast Reactor Depletion Methods in LUPINE” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33880

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “A Multiphysics Simulation Suite for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of PHYSOR, 2020. Cambridge, UK. EPJ Web Conf, 2021. DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202124706019

  • Dawn, William C., Javier Ortensi, Mark D. DeHart, and Scott P. Palmtag. “Comparison of Generation of Higher-Order Neutron Scattering Cross Sections.” Idaho National Laboratory, 2020. INL/EXT-19-54899. Tech. Report. DOI: 10.2172/1593864

  • Dawn, William C. “An Analytic Benchmark for the Solution to the Isotopic Fission Spectrum Mixture Problem.” Idaho National Laboratory, 2020. INL/EXT-19-54998. Tech. Report. DOI: 10.2172/1593873

Dissertation and Thesis

  • Dawn, William C. “Multiphysics Modeling of Microreactors with Unstructured Mesh Neutron Transport and Exascale Computing Architectures.” North Carolina State University, 2022. Ph.D. Dissertation.

  • Dawn, William C. “Simulation of Fast Reactors with the Finite Element Method and Multiphysics Models.” North Carolina State University, 2019. M.S. Thesis.

Posters

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Multiphysics Modeling of Microreactors with Unstructured Mesh Neutron Transport and Exascale Computing Architectures.” NEDAC Poster Session (2022). Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29283.22567

Patents

  • “Intermixing Feedwater Sparger Nozzles and Methods for using the Same in Nuclear Reactors.” US10566097B2.

  • “Acoustic Flowmeters and Methods of Using Same.” US10650931B2.

  • “Systems and Methods for Airflow Control in Reactor Passive Decay Heat Removal.” US10937557B2.